GENERAL REMARKS. 27 



Astor House in New York contains several 

 hundred, many of them large and commodious ; 

 and the Tremont House in Boston, one hundred 

 and eighty. The Palace of the Escurial in 

 Madrid has 1860 rooms. 



OCCUPANTS. As to the number of occu- 

 pants, it will not compare at all with most 

 buildings. Churches will contain a thousand 

 people at a time some of them more. Thea- 

 tres will also accommodate their thousands of 

 visitors. Public houses will even accommodate 

 their hundreds of travellers, and some of our 

 boarding establishments many hundreds of 

 boarders. 1 have been shown a few boarding 

 houses in our own manufacturing villages that 

 contained not accommodated, for they did 

 not three or four hundred boarders. In Paris, 

 Vienna, Edinburg, St. Petersburg, and even in 

 New York, fifty persons, and sometimes more, 

 are occasionally crowded together into a single 

 building. The Spanish tobacco factory, of 

 which I have already spoken, employed 1500 

 to 2000 persons. But the house I am de- 

 scribing, like the huts of some of the ruder 



